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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 months ago (1 children)

172.16.0.0/12 is a valid prefix for private networks. In fact, you get more hosts than 192.168.0.0/16, but less than 10.0.0.0/8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses

[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it’s not that it’s not valid for private networks, it’s that 172.16.42.x is common for WiFi Pineapples

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Every "well ackqually" person in this thread is insufferable

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IDK, I find them quite sufferable and in fact I'm learning something from this thread.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Can't argue with that, I guess